• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.56-66
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• 2014

We propose a novel opportunistic access scheme for cognitive radios in an interweave cognitive system, that considers the channel gain as well as the predicted idle channel probability (primary user occupancy: Busy/idle). In contrast to previous work where a cognitive user vacates a channel only when that channel becomes busy, the proposed scheme requires the cognitive user to switch to the channel with the next highest idle probability if the current channel's gain is below a certain threshold. We derive the threshold values that maximize the long term throughput for various primary user transition probabilities and cognitive user's relative movement.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2015

In opportunistic networks, it is difficult to predict when a node encounters others and how long it keeps in contact with another. Nodes continually attempt to explore neighbor nodes in the vicinity to transmit data. In battery-operated devices, this persistent exploration consumes a great deal of energy. In this paper, we propose an optimal energy-efficient neighbor discovery scheme (OPEED) that guarantees neighbor discovery within a delay bound. Through performance evaluation, we show that the OPEED scheme consumes 33%-83% less energy than other schemes.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.2567-2582
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• 2016

This paper investigates the impact of outdated channel state information (CSI) on the performance of the incremental amplify-and-forward (AF) opportunistic relaying (OR) over dual-hop Rayleigh fading channels. According to the definition of distribution function, we obtain the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the actual combined signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) received at the destination. Based on this CDF, the closed-form expressions of the average spectral efficiency and outage probability are derived for the incremental AF OR under outdated CSI. Numerical results show that in the low region of the average SNR of the direct link, outdated CSI deteriorates the system performance, whereas in the high region, outdated CSI has almost no impact on the system performance.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.55-63
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• 2007

Exchange of information is essential to the process of innovation such as product development. However, in many cases innovation fails because of a lack of knowledge sharing among parties concerned, even if parties individually have pieces of useful knowledge and skills. Besides physical factors like communication costs, the possibility of opportunistic behavior by parties like stealing ideas can discourage information exchange. This paper introduces a model to analyze incentives of information exchange. The model is a game by two players who alternately opt to offer information to the partner. It is suggested that information exchange can stop before reaching the efficient level. In order to attain the efficient information exchange, expectation of mutual benefit and absence of opportunistic motives in both players are needed. Methods for promoting information exchange include modifying payoff structure to meet the condition of information exchange. The fluidity of partnership may increase a variety of information exchange partners, but discourage building trust between partners which promotes information exchange.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.173-179
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• 2014

In an opportunistic network, one of the most challenging issues is the equilibrium of the network traffic and transmission delay for forwarding messages. To resolve this problem, we propose a new forwarding scheme, called the direction entropy-based forwarding scheme (DEFS), using the main direction and direction entropy based on the information collected about the directions of the nodes in the network. Since each node sends a message to another node with a different location and less direction entropy, DEFS utilizes those nodes that are more likely to travel to various locations to forward the messages to the destination nodes. Experiments were performed on the network simulator NS-2. The results show that DEFS provides better balance than the typical forwarding schemes, such as Epidemic, PRoPHET, and WAIT.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1318-1323
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• 2013

본 논문은 비 슬롯 모드 인지 무선망에서 기회적 스펙트럼 접속 방식의 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통해 비교 분석한다. 비교 분석할 두 가지 기회적 스펙트럼 방식은 다음과 같다. 첫 번째 방식은 어떤 채널에서 전송을 성공한 경우 동일한 채널을 다시 센싱하고, 실패한 경우 가장 오래전에 선택했던 채널을 센싱하는 방식이다. 두 번째 방식은 어떤 채널에서 전송에 실패한 경우 동일한 채널을 다시 센싱하고, 성공한 경우 가장 오래전에 선택했던 채널을 센싱하는 방식이다. 본 논문에서는 일차 사용자가 채널을 점유하는 기간에 따라 두 방식 사이의 성능을 비교한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.346-357
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• 2010

Opportunistic scheduling provides the capability of resource management in wireless networks by taking advantage of multiuser diversity and by allowing delay variation in delivering data packets. It generally aims to maximize system throughput or guarantee fairness and quality of service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, we develop an extended proportional fair (PF) scheduling policy that can statistically guarantee three kinds of QoS. The scheduling policy is derived by solving the optimization problems in an ideal system according to QoS constraints. We prove that the practical version of the scheduling policy is optimal in opportunistic scheduling systems. As each scheduling policy has some parameters, we also consider practical parameter adaptation algorithms that require low implementation complexity and show their convergences mathematically. Through simulations, we confirm that our proposed schedulers show good fairness performance in addition to guaranteeing each user's QoS requirements.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

최근에 많은 연구가 진행되고 있는 무선 ad-hoc 네트워크는 전력 제한 시스템이기 때문에 전력 절약은 ad-hoc 네트워크의 매우 중요한 연구 주제 중 하나이다. 그러므로 본 논문에서는 무선 ad-hoc 네트워크에 기회전송 릴레이(Opportunistic transmission relay) 시스템을 적용하였을 때, 전체 시스템의 오수신율이 최소가 되도록 제한된 전력을 각 송신 노드에 최적으로 할당하는 방법에 관하여 제안하고 각 값들을 수식적으로 유도하였다. 유도한 결과는 각 노드들에 통일한 전력을 할당할 때보다 시스템의 오수신 특성이 항상 우수하였다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2008년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.289-290
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• 2008

We consider cooperative opportunistic beamforming that can mitigate the other cell interference (OCI) in correlated multi-user multiple-input single-output (MISO) cellular environments. By only exploiting the spatial channel information of adjacent cells, the proposed scheme generates the cooperative random beam that statistically avoids the OCI from adjacent cells. Each cell selects a user in an opportunistic manner. Thus, the proposed scheme can simultaneously achieve the multi-user diversity (MUD) gain and the OCI avoidance gain.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.83-87
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• 2014

This paper introduces a refined opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) technique that uses minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection at the receivers in multiple-input multiple-output multi-cell uplink networks. In the OIA scheme under consideration, each user performs the optimal transmit beamforming and power control to minimize the level of interference generated to the other-cell base stations, as in the conventional energy-efficient OIA. The result showed that owing to the enhanced receiver structure, the OIA scheme shows much higher sum-rates than those of the conventional OIA with zero-forcing detection for all signal-to-noise ratio regions.